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Fu Bi asked, "The summer tax has been collected."

"Summer tax, how much summer tax can be? The salary of officials, military pay for soldiers, and national expenditures, can it be less? As Xingzhi said, military pay must not be less. Most of the soldiers are northerners, not only themselves, but their families also need this military pay. Do I dare to reduce the severance?"

Wang Yaochen's words made Fu Bi unable to speak out.

Wang Juzheng said hesitantly: "Or deduct it from Ping An Supervision Bureau."

"It's too late!" Zheng Lang immediately refuted. The China Safety Commission brought some income, but the accounts could not be cleared until the end of June or even July. Even if the withdrawal was made in advance, and using money and silk to buy grain and hire people and ships in Huainan, Jiangnan, it was July, and it was too late.

All the people stared at Yan Shu with their eyes. Yan Shu was also the prime minister of the East and West Mansions, and was also a real prime minister. However, Yan Shu was still alive and stared at these memorials, as if he was wandering outside the sky.

Zhang Dexiang was helpless and asked Zheng Lang: "Xingzhi, what are your good plans?"

"borrow."

"No," Fu Bi said. The court had already "borrowed" a lot of money from the rich. It would be fine to borrow another hundreds of thousands of guan. If you borrow four or five million guan, you would have to lose your money.

"It's borrowing, not blackmail." Zheng Lang smiled. Although the Song Dynasty was a feudal country, it had been struggling to fight the gap between the rich and the poor, although it was not successful because of the system itself, including this time "borrowing money" from the rich and powerful.

"What's the difference?" Fu Bi asked back.

"Does Yanguo oppose it? Don't you think that the wealthy and powerful people have made too much profits because of our founding of the country. Even if we pay a little more, it is still appropriate? In the case of difficulties, everyone has the responsibility. Only when they have money and work hard can they overcome the crisis." But Zheng Lang laughed again and said, "But it is not good for the court to do this. Guardian Yan. This money was borrowed by Guardian Yan and Guardian Lu when they were in charge of the government. Do you have any plans to repay it?"

All the prime ministers were amused.

Yan Shu was also happy. After laughing, he said seriously: "Xingzhi cannot borrow it anymore, and the amount is large, so it cannot be borrowed."

"It is necessary to borrow, but this time it is a real loan, not only borrowing and repaying. It also has to pay appropriate interest. If the drought worsens this year, the country will still be seriously insufficient. If you do not plan ahead, once a large-scale grain shortage occurs, profiteers will hoard food and the price of grain will remain high. People's lives are even more difficult, and the court will have to spend several times more money to resolve this crisis. The previous army has only been a few years, so you have to borrow. As for repayment... This year, peace talks must be made with the Western Xia, and the Khitan forced me to make peace, Yuan Hao is a false peace, but in these few years, the northwest will win a short peaceful time, and the national finance will gradually become healthy next year. That is, you can easily repay the debt next year. The court can print a batch of treasury bonds and indicate the interest. Next year, this batch of treasury bonds can be collected at Ping An Supervisory Commission for dividends, or used as tax payments and returned to the hands of wealthy households."

"Really borrowed it? The country will lose face..." Du Yan said worriedly.

"Du Xianggong, Taizu swept the eight deserts and was intimidating **. Taizong still had the courage to attack the sixteen prefectures of Youyun. When the late emperor was in the city, he was in the alliance with His Majesty's court. He increased the annual tribute and changed the tribute to the vassal. A small Western Xia wasted nearly 100 million yuan of silk, but he could not even clear it up. He had the idea of ​​peace talks. One generation was worse than the other. What face could the monarch and ministers of the dynasty? He was so disgraced! Even if the Eastern Jin and Liu Song still had a northern expedition from time to time to boost morale, there were those who were as weak as our dynasty. Du Gong, don't you think that since Huangdi founded the Yanhuang Huaxia, the face of the Han people had been lost by our dynasty?"

"If you can't say that, my internal governance is the first priority, and wealth has never been seen since ancient times," said Ren Zhongshi.

"We have never seen wealth since ancient times, but where is money and silk?"

"Hold riches among the people."

"Really? Why do I hear that many people don't even dare to raise more children. As long as they raise their third child, they will kill their biological children in their infancy. Ren Xianggong, is this hidden wealth in the people, hidden in the hands of a very small number of wealthy families, or is it really hidden in the hands of all the people?"

"Who can achieve average wealth? Our dynasty is already working hard..." Zhang Dexiang said gently.

"I don't like to argue about this. I don't like to argue. With this time, the country is in trouble. It's better to do more practical things. You agree to borrow or not. You can do not borrow. If you don't borrow, don't attack the exemption law when there is a shortage of food."

None of the prime ministers dared to make a decision.

There have been instances of borrowing money, but it is not borrowing, but extortion as Zheng Lang said. There are real borrowing money, and there are repaid things in history, but there have been no similar cases in the Song Dynasty.

Yan Shu hesitated for a while, and he was also afraid that this kid was very evil. Last year, he said that the northwest was very cold, but it was indeed very cold. A few years ago, he said that the drought was severe, but it was indeed severe. It seemed that the Master had never mentioned similar knowledge and didn't know where to learn it. Could it be concluded by observing the astronomical phenomena? But this is okay to deceive the people, but it is not possible to deceive themselves. Observing the astronomy, you can know the weather forecast, which is also not very accurate. It seems that this kid has never said it, let alone admitted that there are similar knowledge.

However, he had to be careful that if the drought spread, he said that he had not done it, and immediately these gentlemen would be disgusted to death. Thinking of this, he said, "Or report to His Majesty's decision."

"OK."

Notified Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen was also very cautious. A few days ago, Zhao Zhen sent an envoy to pray to Yuedu for rain because it was not raining for a long time in spring and summer. But unlike the severe drought a few years ago, it was a real severe drought. There was no drop of rain. In addition, locusts were scorched earth thousands of miles away in the north and desolate thousands of miles away. Although this year, there were one or two pitiful light rains, which were indispensable for locusts and no disasters were formed. But it is hard to say, what if the drought worsens? At this time, Zhao Zhen felt that his mouth was bitter.

He was not like Zheng Lang, who was skeptical about ghosts and gods. Even if there were gods, he might not be able to manage human affairs. Besides, there were so many gods, including Song Dynasty, Khitan, Tubo, Western Xia, Uighur, big food, European, Indian, and Indian...

Zhao Zhen believed in the existence of gods, but what did he do wrong? Why did God repay him like this? After fighting for a few years, he finally ushered in the dawn of peace and disaster came again. He summoned Zheng Lang to the inner palace to ask. Zheng Lang was not very easy to answer. The drought was not as good as the drought in the past few years, but the drought in the moment will worsen, but what should I use to answer?

Zheng Lang could only say: "Your Majesty, you are not afraid of 10,000, but you are afraid of it. Even if the drought is relieved and the storage in the north is empty, you must mobilize grain to fill it up. The Sanbai Canal in Shaanxi is about to be completed. We will work hard after autumn, sow seeds next spring, and harvest next autumn. In more than a year, Shaanxi still lacks food. All that is wasted is the money and silk for the construction of some storage in Sanmenxia."

In the past, the most headache-inducing disaster in Guanzhong was Sanmenxia.

Here, Shenmen Island and Guimen Island suddenly appeared in the middle of the Yellow River, plus the two peninsulas in the north and south. The water surface of the Yellow River has shrunk by half and the water flows fast. Because the Guimen Peninsula extends from the Yellow River very far, if you sail from Shenmen River and Guimen River, the boatman will not have time to turn the rudder, and the boat will crash into the reefs of the peninsula, and the boat capsizes and dies. Only Renmen River can navigate. However, there is a reef that is 100 meters downstream of Renmen River. The reef is not big, but the king has been hurt by it for thousands of years. He can use all his methods to remove it. Therefore, there is a very nice idiom called the Pizhu Zhongliu, but this stone is definitely not fun. It has been passed down from ancient times to the present because it has at least 10,000 ships, and there are countless dead boatmen, tourists, families, soldiers, and civilians.

So he carried out large-scale governance from Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. He first dug a new river from the Renmen Peninsula, so that the boat would not hit the pillar when it came out. However, the stone was hard and it took a huge amount of manpower and financial resources. It was shallow and the ship could not be opened. Then he dug a passage on the shore, built a warehouse from the downstream, transported it through land, and reloaded and unloaded it on the ship upstream. The cost was reduced to some ships capsized and killed. However, the cost was increasing.

The kings of the Song Dynasty were all in Kaifeng. The status of Guanzhong declined, and Sanmenxia only underwent a small-scale renovation and reinforced the fiber-pulled plank road. There were still many boatmen who had time to turn the rudder over and hit the pillars in one year. The water flowed very fast and there were many whirlpools. As long as the boat capsized, no matter how good the water quality was, it would be sucked down and drowned. However, because the transportation volume was not large, the degree of harm was decreasing. Until Shaanxi used troops, there were too many boats that had capsized and many people died, so they repaired the land road again.

Zheng Lang refers to this.

"I know, but it is inappropriate to borrow money from the people."

"Your Majesty, can you please give me a word?"

"Tell me."

"If a person has no trust, he will not be established. The country must abide by his credit, especially for his subjects. It doesn't matter if foreign enemies are. As long as he is strong, like the Qin Dynasty or the Khitan, he will violate the alliance many times, no one can afford to blame him. But he must abide by his promises to his subjects, so that the national laws will be authoritative. Even if this credit is directed to some bad people."

Refers to borrowing money.

It may seem to reduce the pressure on the poor and forcefully levy the rich, but the effect may not be very good. At least the country loses its credit.

"Zheng Qing, the national treasury has been empty."

"Your Majesty, you can take your time. As long as everyone realizes the existence of these disadvantages and adjusts them slowly, the treasury will be full sooner or later."

Zhao Zhen was still a little hesitant.

Once you borrow money, not only will the money be repaid, but the previous money also needs to be repaid. That is not a few million guan, but more than one million guan. In fact, Zheng Lang is also compromising. Zhao Zhen reduces and exempts national taxes. This does not refer to the science and technology allocation and commercial taxes, but two taxes, which reduces the taxes of farmers. The science and technology allocation has not been moved. It seems that there is no wave. If you admit the money you borrowed before, will these big and wealthy people appreciate it?

Suddenly the eunuch brought Princess Fukang in.

The little girl looked at Zheng Lang and said, "I can't understand the post you wrote."

"Go, I'm talking about serious business with Zheng Qing."

"Your Majesty, it's okay. I'll write it to His Highness the Princess again," said Zheng Lang. Zhao Zhen seemed to know nothing, but in fact he was a very independent emperor. He had to think about it slowly. He couldn't force him to pick up his pen and write it again.

The last time I copied it was Zhao Mengfu's post "Returning to Come and Come".

He also explained the method of using the pen and the rule of turning the pen tip. This time, Zheng Lang wrote carefully in front of him, explaining while writing.

I didn't expect Princess Fukang to write it well. I occasionally said it, but it would have little effect. Besides, I guessed Zhao Zhen's meaning in my heart, so I might not think that my daughter would learn this word well. The meaning of the words Zhao Zhen values.

"You write this style too?"

"Your Highness, I am not, I am writing another form."

"Let me take a look."

This is nonsense, but Zhao Zhen did not have Du Zhi, and Zheng Lang was not a rigid minister, but this is also what Zhao Zhen values. As the prime minister of the dynasty, the easiest thing to learn to adapt and respond to what circumstances. If you like Shijie, the country will be bad.

"Your Highness, you can do it, but you can't learn it," Zheng Lang kindly advised. His calligraphy is accurate in Mi style, but after the final evolution, he will be slightly restrained. To put it simply, many calligraphy structures need to be adjusted in this convergence, but in fact it is no longer the category of Mi style characters.

But that kind of voluntary and interest remains.

This little princess can't learn anyway.

Written a line of words.

Princess Fukang said, "I'll write it."

"Okay." Zheng Lang handed her the brush.

Princess Fukang half-kneeled on the chair, wrote three words, Zhao Niannu said, "This is my name."

Zheng Lang's face changed drastically.

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